1.   For now, they survive on combat rations packed in yellow plastic pouches.

2.   Once an obscure regional oddity, Tabasco sauce can now be found alongside ketchup at many restaurants and is issued to soldiers to make combat rations more palatable.

3.   They cited daily medical care, delivery of combat rations, water and other necessities.

4.   He displayed a Rwandan army shirt, ammunitions bag and combat rations as proof.

5.   Children in outsized military tunics and plimsolls played on the tarmac, picking up old mattresses or items of combat rations among the jetsam left by the UN forces.

6.   Ukrainian peacekeepers deployed in the enclave of Zepa in eastern Bosnia ate their last combat rations on Wednesday.